Search Results: Books in German from Berthoff Books

Verlag Ullstein, 1971. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 518 pages, with index of names and glossary of foreign words. Mit einer Einleitung von Hans Mayer. Paperback 11.75 x 17.95 cm, mottled dark brown wraps with title in black lettering on orange paper label with rough edges from wear, 1.9 cm tear to top edge of back cover, edges and pages age-tanned, bookstore price in pencil on front free end paper, binding solid, no markings within.

Verlag von Anton Schroll & Co., 1936. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN (but the art reproductions are universal). ~107 pages: 23 of text with b&w cuts of artwork, followed by 42 color plates laid out sideways ~18 cm wide with text about each painting facing verso. Der Text entstammt dem grossen Werke von Gustav Glück über Bruegels Gemälde im selben Verlage. ~8" x 10" (20 x 25.5 cm), beige cloth with red lettering, boards worn and soiled, missing backstrip repaired by an amateur using tan tape, edges age-toned, faint foxing and soil to end papers, some pages loose and a few detached. Though the exterior is beat-up, the plates are in good shape. Names of former owners Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep along with notation that the book was a gift from the writer Eugene Walter; the latter's gift inscription in French (more or less) on front pastedown, his handwritten "captions" (marginalia) on a couple of the plates, his "The… Read More

Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag, 1963. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 154 S. mit Bibliographie. Beihefte zum Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien, Heft 11. 17 x 24 cm, matte wraps faded in places, chipped at bottom of backstrip and along fore-edge of back cover at bottom. Pages bright and unmarked.

Otto Müller Verlag Salzburg, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. Elfte Auslage. (1938 is copyright date, reprint date not stated but before 1963.) Biographical note preceeds the poems. 16mo (11.5 x 19 cm), dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, top edge of boards sunned, dust soil to top edge, a bit of faint foxing to end papers, in lightly worn DJ with sun-browned spine. Old price and other notation in pencil on rear pastedown, notation on ffep about whom the book was a gift from.

Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 1963. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN (but the images are its main content). Mit einer Einleitung von Friedrich Schnack. Panoramas of 46 European cities and their surroundings, drawn from the 1695 edition of Archontologia Cosmica and the Topographia by the Swiss engraver Matthaeus Merian (the Elder) earlier in the 17th century. The engravings are on fold-out panoramic pages. 8" x 10-1/2" (~20 cm x 26.5 cm), pictorial boards, dust soil to edges, Paris fold-out was creased in the wrong place and protrudes slightly. The condition "fair" is a compromise between the "good" interior and "poor" binding: the backstrip is entirely missing and the paper over boards is ragged along where the backstrip was. Gift inscription on the half-title, other pages unmarked.

Reclam, 1972. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 252 pages, with index. Auswahl und einleitung von Stefan Zweig. Pocket-sized paperback (3-3/4" x 6") in yellow wraps which are coffee-stained, scratched on the back, frayed and creased at the corners. Edges and page margins age-toned. Former owner's initials on inside front cover, pencilled bookstore price on title page, no writing or marks to the interior.

Penguin Books, 1964. Soft cover. Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 367 pages, with English prose translations below the German poems; index of first lines. Published in the Penguin Poets series. 1969 reprint. Introduced and edited by David Luke. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear and soil, edges/end papers/page margins age-tanned. Underscoring and/or (intelligent) notes on approximately 20 pages and inside covers.

Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 93 pages, including 15 pages of photographs of performances of Jedermann (Everyman). Mass-market paperback, black smudge near top of front cover, a bit of chipping to top edge. Pencil notation on inside back cover, gift inscription from one friend to another on ffep.

Aufbau-Verlag Berlin und Weimar, 1964. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 451 pages, some black and white illustrations. The reader includes works by and about Heinrich von Kleist. 8vo, beige cloth with rubbed black and gold lettering and decoration, moderate soil and wear including bump to top corner and text block, edges and pages age-tanned. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on first free end paper along with an old price, her underscoring and marginalia on approximately 40 pages.

W.W. Norton & Company, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 93 pages. First Norton Library edition of translation first published 1932, revised 1959, of vignettes written 1899 and first published in German 1904. Includes one-page biographical note and three-page translator's Foreword. Printed with German original and English translation facing. Small trade paperback (5" x 7-3/4") with soil but scant shelf wear to wraps, foxing to top edge. Notes in pencil by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately five pages and underscoring in the lists of Norton Library titles at the end.

Allyn and Bacon, 1903. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN, designed for English-speaking students. 146 pages, with Notes explaining many words and phrases, note on Grimm's Law to draw out German's similarity with English, Exercises for Retranslation, abbreviations list, and nearly 50-page vocabulary list. The German of the Grimms' tales is printed in the Fraktur font in this edition. 12mo, faded gray cloth with black lettering and decoration, spine sunned/discolored and worn at crown and heel, other wear to boards, edges/end papers/pages age-toned with spots of foxing or other stains on some pages, a couple of pages accidentally dog-eared at bottom. Names of three former owners on front pastedown and ffep, notes on front pastedown, rear end papers, and a few pages.

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 192 pages. Dritte, vermehrte Auflage. Collection of essays written between 1944 and 1962. Trade paperback, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, page-turning soil, spine sunned, pages unmarked.